Seil: Thanks so much for your detailed answer, I really appreciate it! I'm completely new to roses. Always just kept my focus on my rare succulent/cacti collection and then my perennial garden which has been basically a "dig a hole, transfer from pot, hopefully it grows". Roses were intimidating to me, but this year I caught the bug after snooping on forums and having too much time on my hands with the pandemic. They really are beautiful plants, and the flowers have so much more variety than I thought before. Nervous because I overdid it and bought about 40 for different areas of my yard and after digging all of those insane holes, I think about them too much now! I'll keep my eye on them and hopefully the weather changes
I am trying to keep a chemical free garden, especially because of my dog. All of the bugs that took over the roses for a while tempted me....but I just spent time squishing them and spraying them with my hose.
Mike: Thanks! That is actually Crown Princess Margareta. Her flowers change a lot from salmons to oranges to golden yellows. I have no idea why, but I really love it. Out of all of these I've planted, she's growing the fastest so far this summer. Maybe doubled or tripled in size. No clue why, she's in a bed with a few other climbers which are growing too but no where near her speed. She won't seem to stop flowering either no matter how much I deadhead, but I love it. Also want to mention that I have been reading your post history in particular, because I saw that you also lived upstate, and wanted to see how roses do up here. I don't know any gardeners here (only lived here 4-5 years now), so I never thought roses would do well with our winters. After seeing your posts and photos, which man are they beautiful, I fell down this rose rabbit hole ha. Hopefully some day my roses will look half as exciting as yours
